Ping Tung Eggplant

70 days. A wonderful eggplant from Ping Tung, Taiwan. Fruits are purple and up to 18” long and 2” in diameter. This variety is so sweet and tender, superbly delicious! One of the best Chinese eggplants on the market.

I've tried growing quite a few types of eggplant, but this is still my favorite.
This year I tried spreading used coffee grounds around the base of my eggplants and it seemed to help with the insect damage. Read that tip someplace and will do it again next year.

Planted 4 of these Mar. 10th from seeds I started indoors. These have been non stop producers! No bitter taste,soaking not needed. Not the right shape really for a slicer with breading, but make an excellent "meat-less" burger from a recipe online. No need to skin, and no bitterness. I have to picked every two days and from 4 plants, I get another 12-15 (6-8") eggplants. These passed up the small tomato cages, plants are now over 4 ft. and still growing! Have survived Zone 9 summer heat, which has been a constant 92-98*. Have produced much better than the Florida Market variety that I grew.

Awesome plant. First eggplant i was EVER able to get fruit from. These plants get flea beetles like crazy but if you can keep them under control and let them grow a up a bit they will produce super cute, very yummy fruit! The fruits are small but, duh, they're supposed to be!

I always come back to this variety every year. This year we moved from TN to MI and I was surprised to see that eggplant was easier to grow here. I moved my seedlings and planted them late. despite the stress they thrived. I also bought some hybrid long eggplant from the local nursery. While they grew fine, the flavor was bitter (and required salting) and the skins were tough. The Ping Tungs were perfect and were sweet enough to go straight into any dish without pre-salting first.